Arthur W. Steudel, re-elected presi
dent of Sherwin-Williams Co., Cleve
land, has become chiief executive officer under new regulations of the company.
Michael J. Fortier, vice president and general manager of tire Acme White Lead & Color Works, Detroit, a Sher
win-Williams subsidiary, has been elec
ted a board member and appointed vice president and executive assistant to the president of Sherwin-Williams. Gor
don H. Robertson, formerly general in
dustrial sales manager at Sherwin-Wil
liams, takes Mr. Fortier’s position at the Acme company. Gustave L. Hehl, east
ern industrial sales manager, has been appointed general manager of industrial sales by Sherwin-Williams. He will be succeeded by Milton A. Kindig with headquarters in Newark, N. J.
P. L. Barter has been named vice presi
dent next to the president in operation foundry manager of Farrel-Birmingham Co. Inc., Ansonia, Conn., and has be
pansion of markets for Wickwire Spencer Steel Co., New York, has been appointed assistant general sales manager of the company and its subsidiary, American Wire Fabrics Corp.
F. E. Neveu, general foreman of the St. Paul plant of tire United States Steel Supply Co., has been appointed super
intendent of that plant, succeeding Austin E. Slattery, retired.
Mason Britton has succeeded W. L.
Clayton as Surplus W ar Property Ad
ministrator until the recently appointed Surplus Property Board takes office.
Harry R. Kluth, district manager at Philadelphia for die Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., has been appointed general
tion Corp.’s Republic Aircraft Products Division, Detroit, has been appointed assistant to the executive vice president, succeeding John E. Stanton who has been transferred to American Central Mfg. Corp., Connersville, Ind., as assist is now president, Orescent Insulated Wire & Cable Co. Inc., Trenton, N. J. hearth superintendent of Wickwire Spencer Steel Co., Buffalo, has joined
ed manager of marine traffic,
Cleveland-Frank P. Rhame, a director and vic<
president of Lunkenheimer Co., Cincin nati, has been made general managei
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been named works manager, succeeding George A. Seyler, who retired as vice president in charge of manufacturing Dec. 31. Fred H. Hehemann becomes chief engineer, succeeding Jerome J.
Auli, who retired Dec. 31 after nearly 50 years with the company.
Richard H. Diesel, for the past three years manager, war contract service de
partment, Stamford Division, Yale &
Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Conn., has engineer, Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Cleveland, subsidiary of United States Steel Corp. Mr. Rattray succeeds James F. Wood, who is retiring after 44 years with the company.
Morgan D. Douglas has been elected vice president and becomes general man
ager, Truck & Coach Division, General Motors Corp., Pontiac, Mich. He suc
ceeds Irving B. Babcock, resigned. Mr.
Douglas has been general parts and ac
cessories manager of the Chevrolet Mo
tor Division since 1929, general manager of the General Motors Parts Division since 1933 and director of parts distribu
tion for General Motors war products.
Sidney M. Robards has been appointed manager, department of information, Radio Corp. of America, New York.
Howard W. Gilbert has been appoint
ed engineering assistant to the president of National Malleable & Steel Castings Co., Cleveland, in charge of specialty engineering, development and testing.
Jack Geartner, formerly with Emer
son Radio & Phonograph Corp., New uent-sales, United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh. Mr. Parsons will be located m Washington. He was associated with Bethlehem Steel Corp., Bethlehem, Pa.,
for many years, becoming district man York territory, Bendix Radio Division, Bendix Aviation Corp., Baltimore. He was formerly eastern sales manager for Crosley Corp., Cincinnati, and Grigsby- Grunow.
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Stanley Szacik has been promoted to assistant superintendent of the cold drawn department of the Dunkirk, N. Y., plants of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. Anthony Passafaro is superintendent now of hot rolling mills and hammers at both the Howard avenue and Brigham road plants at Dunkirk. Emil H. Forsstrom has become assistant superintendent of the Brigham road plant, and William K. Powers is now assistant superintendent of hot roll
ing mills at that plant.
Orville R. Lyons, formerly of Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, O., has been appointed preparation engineer in northern coal mines of Republic Steel Pittsburgh Steel Foundry Corp., Glass- port, Pa.
E. P. Harter has been named sales representative in western New York for Universal-Cyclops Steel Corp., Bridge- ville, Pa. Also appointed are: W. D.
Fisher, special representative in Detroit;
R. A. B. Williams, Pacific Coast repre company’s Industrial Division. Both have been associated with the Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich.
F. Q. Murphy has returned as man
ager of the Atlantic region for the Olds- mobile Division, General Motors Corp.
Other changes are: L. J. Blunden, cen
tral region manager; Russell Lesher, Chicago zone manager; R, L. Myers, nametal’s chief engineer and responsi
ble for subcontracting. fabricated parts department of Wickwire Spencer Metallurgical Corp. at Newark, N. J.
C. V. Coons, sales manager of the Eastern Container Division of Rheem,
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ment, material control, and stores activi
ties of Keilet Aircraft Corp., Upper Darby, Pa.
Paul R. Baker, sales manager for Apex Machine & Tool Co., Dayton, O., has taken over Michigan representation for that company, with Detroit as his headquarters. Harry G. Fischer, for
merly purchasing agent and head of the the Controllers Institute of America, New York.
Lou Boudreau, playing manager of the Cleveland Baseball Co. (the Indians) has joined' the personnel department of Whiting Corp., Harvey, 111.
Dewey E. Narkates, engineering and construction department of Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co., Birmingham, Scrap and Salvage Section, Redistribu
tion Salvage Branch, Office of Chief of Ordnance, War Department, Washing
ton, under Lt. Col. Lowell Thomas, has become associated with Erman-Howell
& Co., Chicago. He will handle gov
ernment bids, nonferrous metals and fer
rous scrap.
sociate director of research laboratories of Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., East Pittsburgh, Pa.
E. F. Hatch, assistant director of the War Production Board Ferroalloy Branch, Steel Division, has returned to his. own work as consulting engineer.
Joseph L. Sheeketski has left the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation to become assistant district manager of the Cleve
land territory for Peninsular Grinding Wheel Co., Detroit.
Organizational changes in the ap
paratus department, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., have been an
nounced as follows: H. V. Erben, com
mercial vice president and manager of the company’s Central Station divisions, becomes assistant general manager, ap
paratus department; C. H. Lang, vice president, is manager of sales; H. A.
Winne, vice president, is manager of en
gineering; Neil Currie Jr. is manager of manufacturing; Guy S. Hyatt, assistant comptroller, is in charge of accounting Craine-Schrage Steel Division of De
troit Steel Corp., Detroit, as chief met
ma-William M. Russell, sales representa
tive in the Detroit and Cleveland areas for Monsanto Chemical Co., St. Louis, has been appointed branch riianager of the Monsanto Organic Chemicals Divi
sion for the Detroit territory.
George Remnsnider, former vice presi
dent, Modern Machine Works and founder of Ideal Stencil Machine Co., St. Louis, died recently in Belleville, Mo.
in magnesium fabrication and nationally recognized authority on magnesium casting processes, died at Cleveland, Jan. 5.
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John F. McLachlan, 47, mechanical engineer for the Chile Exploration Co., subsidiary of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., New York, died in that city Jan. 3. and secretary, Lehigh Goal & Navigation Co., died Jan. 4 at his office, Phila
struction of International Harvester Co.
plants in Chicago and foreign countries Buffalo for Industrial Furnace Division of R-S Products Corp:, ’ Philadelphia, died in Buffalo Jan. 3.
Raymond L. Haskell, 52, manager, Cleveland magnesium sand foundry of American Magnesium Corp., and pioneer
William H. Schulte, 60, assistant chiel engineer, National Engineering Co., Chi
cago, died in that city Jan. 4.
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S U R P L U S P L A N T private and government-owned, is ad
vocated by Russell R. Hetz, general manager, Hetz Construction Co., Warren, 0., industrial liquidating and dismant
ling engineer.
If prompt and complete liquidation of such facilities is not made soon after they become unproductive, Mr. Hetz believes the owners may find themselves in a precarious position by having the ex
pense of idle property on their hands.
The unprecedented demand during the past few years for anything with four
centralization of heavy industries. This decentralization plan, based on the distri
bution of industries on a per capita basis, the luxuries of carrying unproductive plants,” said Mr. Hetz.
“The experience of thousands of in
dustries, which in the past had been burdened with idle works expense, should not be disregarded. With a fair percent
age of the. plants we purchase for liquida
tion, we inherit a two-foot stack of cor
respondence with innumerable letters from promoters who paint glowing pic normal duties to sideline excursions into real estate and idle property problems.
Idle works expense, insurance, temporary repairs and other expenses accumulate.
The silent forces of disintegration and prospect carefully calculates the in
creased cost of operating in buildings specifications also is even manifested more strongly in building an ideal plant, one which exactly suits the owner’s flow of production and his artistic tempera
ment. Experts can prove that a slight
productive property, according to Mr.
Hetz.
ability and desirability to another con
cern is necessarily lessened. Records of
quirements. Experience has shown that these small concerns can occupy these buildings through infancy, but when they reach the adolescent stage, they become efficiency-minded and want to move from the buildings possibly for the same reason they were originally abandoned.
It may be possible that postwar relative liquidation by their own executives would involve,” Mr. Hetz concluded. new servicemen’s information and induc
tion division, a part of the industrial re
lations department.
With decentralization of industry being actively advocated in Congress many politi
cians in the postwar period are likely to seek to advance their economic views by capitalizing on the plight of so-called “dead-end cities”
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